Iran government sites under insurgent cyber attack
Danger Room:
The idea of a cyber insurgency is not new, but this one appears to be largely indigenous. It is also one that the Iranian government is probably not able to deal with in an effective way. To date it has been trying its on offensive use by denying certain media, but the people have found ways around that as can be seen on the YouTube below of the shooter who was probably responsible for killing at least one person yesterday.
More and more of Iran’s pro-government websites are under assault, as opposition forces launch web attacks on the Tehran regime’s online propaganda arms.There is more.What started out as an attempt to overload a small set of official sites has now expanded, network security consultant Dancho Danchev notes. News outlets like Raja News are being attacked, too. The semi-official Fars News site is currently unavailable.
“We turned our collective power and outrage into a serious weapon that we could use at our will, without ever having to feel the consequences. We practiced distributed, citizen-based warfare,” writes Matthew Burton, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who joined in the online assaults, thanks to a “push-button tool that would, upon your click, immediately start bombarding 10 Web sites with requests.”
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The idea of a cyber insurgency is not new, but this one appears to be largely indigenous. It is also one that the Iranian government is probably not able to deal with in an effective way. To date it has been trying its on offensive use by denying certain media, but the people have found ways around that as can be seen on the YouTube below of the shooter who was probably responsible for killing at least one person yesterday.
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